Businesses are migrating IT investments from the traditional CAPEX model to the OPEX model, which is spurring a shift towards public, private and hybrid cloud technology, according to a new report from Technavio.
Because of this move to a more cloud-based workforce, the global cloud infrastructure testing market is expected to post a CAGR of 16.5 percent from 2014-2019.
Adoption of BYOD policy will be a key trend in the global market
A big driver for the growth of the cloud infrastructure testing market is widespread adoption of BYOD policy, and related concerns.
There are several applications and programs that can be accessed or run on the cloud, and implementation of BYOD policies drives the need for assessing the status of activities happening on the network to track and proactively set controls where appropriate. All these factors drive the need for infrastructure testing as this leads to proactive testing of infrastructure to expose the potential points of failure.
Types of Cloud Testing
Performance testing
Cloud performance has to be elastic in nature since elasticity enables cloud infrastructure to scale up and down depending on need. There are two methods used for cloud performance testing: load testing and stress testing.
Security testing
Security is a major concern in the cloud, which is why security testing is one of the most important facets in the cloud infrastructure testing market. Security testing should be performed in such a way that there is no unauthorized access to data. To provide better security testing, service providers formalize industry standards that will help them to define the acceptability criteria for cloud offerings in terms of security.
Bandwidth availability testing
The whole point of the cloud is that it’s available at all times. Cloud service providers must ensure that there is no abrupt service downtime.
Multi-tenancy testing
Multi-tenant refers to an architecture where multiple clients and organizations use an on-demand service. Cloud offerings should be customized according to the requirement of each client and should offer data and configuration level security to avoid issues pertaining to accessibility. This breed of cloud offering needs to be thoroughly validated through testing for each client using the service.
Disaster recovery testing
Service providers strive to provide continuous service to their clients, which is not always 100% achievable. Cloud testing needs to take place so that CSPs can test how long it takes for them to get their services back online in the event of downtime, to help ensure minimal disruption for customers.
